Vicarious resilience and vicarious traumatisation: Experiences of working with refugees and asylum seekers in South Australia.
The negative psychological impacts of working with traumatised people are well documented and include vicarious traumatisation (VT): the cumulative effect of identifying with clients' trauma stories that negatively impacts on service providers' memory, emotions, thoughts, and worldviews. More recent...
| Publicado en: | Transcultural Psychiatry Vol. 52; no. 6; pp. 743 - 766 |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Dec2015
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